224728 - Bad UI behaviour with Message Compose Window pressing ALT and UP/DOWN key

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Andrés G. Aragoneses]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; es-ES; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

When composing a new message, if we use the cursor key "down", a component drops
down incorrectly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Press CTRL+M to open a new message window.
2. Press the FROM bar to select an identity.
3. Press it again so as an identity has been selected and the focus is on that
element.
4. Press ALT key.
5. Press down cursor key.

Actual Results:  
The first menu drops down but the FROM bar (to select identities) also drops
down. If in that situation, we click on another Mozilla window (that is, for
example, behind the message compose window) another bug occurs: the menu "File"
that has dropped down still is showing on the window.

Expected Results:  
Drop down the first menu ("File") and nothing more.
If we click on other Mozilla page, the dropped down menu should disappear also.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Note that step (4) should be "Press and release ALT key".

Also, once the two menus are displayed, typing ESC closes the File menu; at this 
point, the From: dropdown has the focus again.

Switching to another window in these cases results in oddness, as well:
If you switch to another window with both menus displayed, the From: dropdown 
closes but the File menu floats on top of the newly-active window.  If you 
switch to another window after typing ESC to close the File menu, the From: 
dropdown menu floats on top of the newly-active window.

Couldn't find a dupe, altho it's hard to know what to search for with a bug like 
this.  Confirming.

Comment 2

[Andrés G. Aragoneses]

Yes, I had also tried to find a dupe but it's difficult to know what to search.

I am changing the summary because I have noticed that the bug happens also with
the "up cursor key".

Thanks for reviewing it, Mike.

Comment 3

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

confirming with build 20031028 WinXP

Comment 4

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

This is an accessibility problem for people with disabilities, raising severity.

Comment 5

[Andrés G. Aragoneses]

It seems on Linux this bug is also present, but the way to reproduce it is
different (because in Linux if you press and release the ALT key, the menu
doesn't get the focus).

The steps to reproduce on Linux are:

1. Press CTRL+M to open a new message window.
2. Press the FROM bar to select an identity.
3. Press it again so as an identity has been selected and the focus is on that
element.
4. Press ALT+F (for example, to open the "File" menu).
5. Press up/down cursor key.


Changing OS to a 'All'.

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I can reproduce this bug easily under Mozilla 1.7.2, Win2K, with Classic and 
Pinball (Modern-based) themes -- but under Mozilla 1.8a5, it appears to be 
fixed.  Reporter (knocte), can you confirm?

However, TB 0.8 and 0.8+1029 both still exhibit the symptom.

Comment 7

[Andrés G. Aragoneses]

Confirming that with build 2004103106[Win32] it is fixed.

So, is there a way to close this bug for Moz-suite and leave it open for TB?

Comment 8

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Moving bug to Thunderbird.

Comment 9

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This is working correctly in TB 1.5.

Comment 10

[Andrés G. Aragoneses]

Confirming, this seems to be fixed in TB1.5. Marking verified.